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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 04, 2009
Craig William Fellenstein, Brookfield, CT (US);
Rick Allen Hamilton, Ii, Charlottesville, VA (US);
Joshy Joseph, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
James W Seaman, Falls Church, VA (US);
Craig William Fellenstein, Brookfield, CT (US);
Rick Allen Hamilton, II, Charlottesville, VA (US);
Joshy Joseph, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
James W Seaman, Falls Church, VA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A grid service detects a current software environment for a grid job within a grid environment, wherein the grid environment includes multiple grid resources. The grid service searches a catalog of multiple software images to determine whether an image for the current software environment matches any software images in the catalog. Each of the software images includes an index into at least one installation image. Storage of the software images is structured in the catalog for automated efficient access to each software image by multiple resource nodes within the grid environment. If the grid service does not locate a software image for the current software environment in the catalog, the grid service captures at least one installation image for the current software environment for storage in the catalog as an additional software image.